Ann Arbor — Michigan’s Brandon Johns Jr., Colin Castleton, David DeJulius and Adrien Nunez took their lumps as freshman.
The quartet scratched and clawed for scraps of playing time, but none could crack a consistent role in the rotation on last season’s 30-win team.
But if the Wolverines are going to build upon the program’s recent stretch of success, they’re going to need all four of them to make a much-needed jump in Year 2.
“All of our returning sophomores have had a productive summer,” assistant coach Saddi Washington said last week at the team’s media day.